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BILL,

INTITULED,

AN ACT for compensating the Families of
Persons killed by Accidents.

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HEREAS no Action at Law is now maintainable against Preamble. a person who by his wrongful act, neglect or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him; Be it therefore Enacted, by The QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT whensoever any person shall by his wrongful act, neglect 10 or default have caused the death of another person, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action against such firstmentioned person in any of Her Majesty's Courts of Record at Westminster, and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every 15 such case the person so causing such death shall be liable to an action for damages resulting therefrom, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to the offence of Manslaughter.

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And be it Enacted, That every such action shall be for the sole benefit of such person or persons as are entitled to the personal effects of the deceased; and in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties for whom and for whose benefit the action

An Action tainable against any ing Death through neglect, &c., standing the

person caus

notwith

Death of

the person injured.

3. Proviso that

not more than one Action shall lie.

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Particular of the person, &c. claiming to be delivered.

5. Construction of Act.

6.

Operation of Act.

7.

Act may be

amended, &c.

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shall be brought: Provided always, That all such actions shall be
brought and proceeded in and damages recovered in the same way
and manner as if the deceased party himself had brought it, and shall
be brought by the executor or administrator of such deceased person,
and he or she shall be compelled to proceed, upon application of the
person so entitled or any of them, and on being indemnified for costs;
and that in case there shall be no executor or administrator, then any
of the parties entitled as aforesaid shall be at liberty to proceed in
bringing and prosecuting such action as aforesaid; and in either case
the damages recovered shall be considered as part of the personal 10
estate of the deceased, and paid and divided accordingly; and that
every Plaintiff in whose favour a verdict shall be given in any action
under this Act shall be entitled to his full costs of suit, unless the
damages found by the jury shall be less than Forty Shillings.

Provided always, and be it Enacted, That not more than One 15 action shall lie for and in respect of the same subject-matter of complaint; and if two or more actions in respect thereof shall at any time be brought, it shall be lawful for the Court or a Judge to order that the same be consolidated, and also to direct in whose name the action, after consolidation, shall proceed, as well as to make such other 20 orders therein as to them or him shall seem fit.

And be it Enacted, That in every such action the Plaintiff on the record shall be required, together with the declaration, to deliver to the Defendant or his Attorney a full particular of the person or persons for whom and on whose behalf such action shall be brought, and of 25 the nature of the claim in respect of which damages shall be sought to be recovered.

And be it Enacted, That the following words and expressions are intended to have the meanings hereby assigned to them respectively, so far as such meanings are not excluded by the context or by the 30 nature of the subject-matter; (that is to say) words denoting the singular number are to be understood to apply also to a plurality of persons or things; and words denoting the masculine gender are to be understood to apply also to persons of the feminine gender.

And be it Enacted, That this Act shall come into operation from 35 and immediately after the passing thereof.

And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this Session of Parliament.

AN ACT for facilitating Execution of the Treaties with France and the United States of America for the Apprehension of certain Offenders.

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HEREAS Two Acts were passed in the seventh year of the Preamble: reign of Her Majesty, severally intituled, " An Act for giving 6 & 7 Vict. Effect to a Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the French

for the Apprehension of certain Offenders," and "An Act for giving Effect 6 & 7 Vict. to a Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for c. 76.

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Police Magisrant may be

trate's war

executed throughout

Kingdom.

the Apprehension of certain Offenders;" and it is expedient to make provision for giving more immediate effect to the warrant of any One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the better execution of the said Convention and Treaty respectively; Be it Enacted, by The 10 QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT any Police Magistrate of the Metropolis to whom any One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State shall have signified by warrant under his hand and seal that requisition has been made pursuant to the the United said Convention or Treaty respectively, to deliver up to justice, in terms of the said Convention or Treaty, as the case may be, any person accused of any crime rendering him liable to be so delivered up under either of the recited Acts, shall, upon such evidence as according 20 to the laws of England would justify the apprehension of the person so accused if the crime of which he is accused had been committed in England within the jurisdiction of such Magistrate, issue his warrant for the apprehension of such person, in the form annexed to this Act, or to the like effect; and such warrant may be executed in any part of England, and shall have the same force and effect throughout